Salvage: Lethal Force

From Isom creator Eric July with art legend Bart Sears—Jon Salvage is one of three P.I.s in Florespark licensed to use lethal force. He just used it. Salvage: Lethal Force is the first formal Salvage/Fontaino crossover.

Salvage walks out of the construction-site shootout from the RippaZine with bodies on the ground and a bigger problem than the trucking case he was hired for. The hitman called Plyo works for someone else. Florespark Logistics doesn't fill that whole tower. And Rebecca Pace—the vampire bartender at the Iron Rail—knows which suits drink there after work. By the time Salvage closes the case, he's crossed paths with Darren Fontaino. The first formal Salvage/Fontaino crossover.

Florespark licenses exactly three private investigators to use lethal force on contract. Salvage is one. Saoirse (Saoirse #1, 10/13/26) is another—and the two share a city, a license, and the noir corner of the Rippaverse. A grounded urban P.I. thriller with super-powered street-level scope. Sets up the Salvage: Exclave tie-in (12/08/26).

From Eric July, founder of Rippaverse Publishing and creator of Salvage, Fontaino, and the Rippaverse, with interior art by legendary artist Bart Sears (Brute Force, X-O Manowar, Conan relaunch). Colors by James Brown.